Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City

ยท Astra Publishing House
ืกืคืจ ื“ื™ื’ื™ื˜ืœื™
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ืžื™ื“ืข ืขืœ ื”ืกืคืจ ื”ื“ื™ื’ื™ื˜ืœื™ ื”ื–ื”

At every corner, down every block, a city percolates with people at work and play: girls jumping double Dutch, the shoeshine man polishing a pair of wing tips, boys heading toward the basketball court. Each neighborhood is filled with unique characters (the beautician, the barber, the short-order cook) and places (the storefront churches, the outdoor market, the park pool) - all as familiar as family. Carole Boston Weatherford pays tribute to these sights and sounds of urban life in twenty fresh and rhythmic poems. In quiet moments and lively street scenes, her work captures the excitement and diversity found in these places that have "no trees / to climb" but where people young and old still "reach for the stars." Dimitrea Tokunbo's vivid illustrations are sure to delight.

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New York Timesย best-selling authorย Carole Boston Weatherfordโ€™sย 60-plus books include the Caldecott Honor bookย Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, for which she was awarded the Coretta Scott King Author Award and a Sibert Honor; the Newbery Honor winnerย Box; and the Caldecott Honor winnersย Freedom in Congo Square, Fannie Lou Hamer,andย Moses. She won a Coretta Scott King Author Honor forย Becoming Billie Holiday. Weatherford teaches at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina. Visit cbweatherford.com.ย 

Dimitrea Tokunbo is the illustrator of Has Anybody Lost a Glove? by G. Francis Johnson. She lives in New York City.

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ืขื•ื“ ืžืืช Carole Boston Weatherfordโ€

How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace
Carole Boston Weatherford
โ€12.29ย โ€โ‚ฌ
Me and My Mama
Carole Boston Weatherford
ืกืคืจื™ ื™ืœื“ื™ื
โ€6.53ย โ€โ‚ฌโ€4.90ย โ€โ‚ฌ
By and By: Charles Albert Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
Carole Boston Weatherford
โ€12.29ย โ€โ‚ฌ
Becoming Billie Holiday
Carole Boston Weatherford
โ€9.84ย โ€โ‚ฌ

ืกืคืจื™ื ื“ื™ื’ื™ื˜ืœื™ื™ื ื“ื•ืžื™ื

Becoming Billie Holiday
Carole Boston Weatherford
โ€9.84ย โ€โ‚ฌ
A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same Street
DK
โ€6.99ย โ€โ‚ฌ
What You Need to Be Warm
Neil Gaiman
โ€12.56ย โ€โ‚ฌโ€8.54ย โ€โ‚ฌ
BOX: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
Carole Boston Weatherford
โ€8.95ย โ€โ‚ฌโ€6.09ย โ€โ‚ฌ